{"id":599,"date":"2008-02-18T21:55:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T02:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=599"},"modified":"2008-02-18T21:55:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T02:55:01","slug":"quick-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/quick-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A too-brief follow-on to the previous post:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I would much rather see learning objects in a container like David Wiley&#8217;s course than in any CMS (I refuse to call them LMS&#8217;s&#8211;just my little gesture of protest) I&#8217;ve ever seen, for all the reasons everyone&#8217;s pointed out.<\/li>\n<li>That said, I am still not enthusiastic about the &#8220;content&#8221; and &#8220;resources&#8221; I&#8217;m seeing here. I wish I were more excited. Four years ago I probably would have been. And yes, I understand that incrementalism is valuable, and that taken together the elements here constitute a significant advance. I suppose I&#8217;m wishing the steps had been taken in a different direction.<\/li>\n<li>I see that the course feeds out. But what feeds <em>in<\/em> to this course?<\/li>\n<li>Honestly, for resources that simply feed out, I&#8217;d much rather listen to a podcast of a really good lecture, or even a YouTube video of a great presentation, than see a set of links or an outline of a lesson. The links and the lesson are valuable, too, and I&#8217;d much rather see them exposed like this than sitting behind a Blackweb wall. But it&#8217;s the human context that I want to see, hear, experience.<\/li>\n<li>Maybe it&#8217;s the word &#8220;content&#8221; that gets me restive. I want to see content that&#8217;s more responsive to the medium. And I don&#8217;t think that such content necessarily replaces books, or essays, or any of the things we experience in schooling now. I think the digital medium, and the digital imagination, moves us off default positions and into a much more intelligent place from which to choose and craft the experiences we want to lead our students through&#8211;and to equip them to choose and craft those experiences for themselves. (Both are necessary, in my view&#8211;but I&#8217;ve written about my concerns about a completely learner-centered paradigm before.)<\/li>\n<li>As I understand it, learning objects did not really catch on for precisely this reason: a resource without a rich context is difficult to adopt, and not terribly attractive to a faculty member who rightly or wrongly believes that she or he is being paid to develop materials reflecting her or his own expertise and judgment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most of all:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still finding my way with all this stuff myself. But I have a strong sense that we need to get to Alan Kay&#8217;s vision of the computer as an instrument whose music is ideas, and I don&#8217;t see this paradigm getting us closer. I could be wrong. Help me understand! It pains me to think that any part of the conversation would turn bitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A too-brief follow-on to the previous post: I would much rather see learning objects in a container like David Wiley&#8217;s course than in any CMS (I refuse to call them LMS&#8217;s&#8211;just my little gesture of protest) I&#8217;ve ever seen, for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/quick-reflections\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-9F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}